This Week

The Rockettes, stars of the “Radio City Christmas Spectacular.”

Photograph by Pari Dukovic

The Theatre

Listen up

At BAM Fisher, the Dublin-based Pan Pan Theatre Company presents Samuel Beckett’s radio play “All That Fall”; audience members will listen to the performance through speakers while seated in rocking chairs. Gavin Quinn directs.

Night Life

Twisted

Dee Snider, who rose to fame as the lead singer of the heavy-metal band Twisted Sister, has found an unlikely second career as a Broadway baby. In 2010, he starred in “Rock of Ages,” and this May he released “Dee Does Broadway,” a compendium of show tunes with unlikely guest vocalists, including Patti LuPone and Bebe Neuwirth. At 54 Below, he’ll sing testosterone-infused showstoppers and holiday favorites.

Art

The Old New Thing

Abstract art, from Constructivist painting to atonal music, is roughly a century old. The Museum of Modern Art celebrates the centennial in the exhibition “Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925,” with works by Marcel Duchamp, Marsden Hartley, Kazimir Malevich, and Piet Mondrian, among many others.

Classical Music

Season Of Hope

Christmastime is Daniel Hope time in New York: the violinist is heard in two separate programs, playing Bach with the Salomé Chamber Orchestra at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and performing a remixed version of “The Four Seasons” at (Le) Poisson Rouge.

Movies

The Best Of Times

Sergei Eisenstein cited Charles Dickens as a model for cinematic montage, and the world of movies repaid the debt with a cornucopia of Dickens adaptations. Among those screening in MOMA’s series “Dickens on Film” are George Cukor’s “David Copperfield,” David Lean’s “Oliver Twist,” and a silent version of “Our Mutual Friend,” from 1921.